A person’s heart withers if it does not answer another heart. — Pearl S. Buck

The heart never grows old. — Pearl S. Buck

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man’s pride in his modesty in the face of achievement. — Pearl S. Buck

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. — Pearl S. Buck

You seem to grieve for what is not so … and there is no need to let Your heart run ahead into evils that may never come. — Pearl S. Buck

Life is stronger than death. — Pearl S. Buck

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself…a human being. — Pearl S. Buck

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused. — Pearl S. Buck

Now, five years is nothing in a man’s life except when he is very young and very old…–Wang Lung — Pearl S. Buck

There is one word that can be the guide for your life–it is the word reciprocity. — Pearl S. Buck

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck

Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful. — Pearl S. Buck

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid. — Pearl S. Buck

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. — Pearl S. Buck

Destructiveness comes only when life isn’t lived. People who can live their lives don’t destroy themselves. — Pearl S. Buck

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. — Pearl S. Buck

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. — Pearl S. Buck

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers. — Pearl S. Buck

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies. — Pearl S. Buck

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin… For me that house was a gateway to America. — Pearl S. Buck

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens. — Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death. — Pearl S. Buck

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. — Pearl S. Buck

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. — Pearl S. Buck

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. — Pearl S. Buck

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. — Pearl S. Buck

Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times. — Pearl S. Buck

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world. — Pearl S. Buck

There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food. — Pearl S. Buck

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. — Pearl S. Buck

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not. — Pearl S. Buck

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. — Pearl S. Buck

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. — Pearl S. Buck

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. — Pearl S. Buck

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That’s because war is unreal. — Pearl S. Buck

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty. — Pearl S. Buck

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political. — Pearl S. Buck

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. — Pearl S. Buck

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. — Pearl S. Buck

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women. — Pearl S. Buck

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women–certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another. — Pearl S. Buck

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. — Pearl S. Buck

But hers was a strange heart, sad in its very nature, and she could never weep and ease it as other women do, for her tears never brought her comfort. — Pearl S. Buck

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them. — Pearl S. Buck

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman. — Pearl S. Buck

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources. — Pearl S. Buck

Men cannot be free in a nation where woMen are forbidden freedom. — Pearl S. Buck

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls–even satin–lined, diamond–studded walls–without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. — Pearl S. Buck

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth. — Pearl S. Buck

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. — Pearl S. Buck

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. — Pearl S. Buck

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. — Pearl S. Buck

A woman’s mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified. — Pearl S. Buck

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. — Pearl S. Buck

The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit. — Pearl S. Buck

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control. — Pearl S. Buck

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. — Pearl S. Buck

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people. — Pearl S. Buck

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it. — Pearl S. Buck

When one commits one’s self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace–desperate, perhaps, but peace. — Pearl S. Buck

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular. — Pearl S. Buck